THE APPEAL OF “HAMLET”
PROCRASTINATOR’S AGONY “Why is ‘Hamlet’ the most famous play in the history of literature?” was the subject of Rev. W. Jellie’s lecture to W.E.A. students at the old Grammar School last evening. The reason was its universal appeal, said the lecturer. Who did not know the agony of procrastination in daily life, growing more intense the longer a duty is delayed? Hamlet had mare than one opportunity of retrieving his self-respect, but ever deferred the carrying out of the Heaven-appointed task of avenging his father’s death, loathing himself the while, and by his wrong course of action causing much unnecessary suffering and many deaths. It is in “Hamlet” that Shakespeare most clearly expresses his belief in the “Divinity that shapes our ends rough hew them how we will.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 132, 25 August 1927, Page 8
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132THE APPEAL OF “HAMLET” Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 132, 25 August 1927, Page 8
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